Rene Magritte

while he is a painter, Rene Magritte was a very famouse belgium surrealist artist. within his work, his intended goal  was to challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality and force viewers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings. His work often toys with basing work on an object (such as a pipe or an apple) and making them realistic in a sence, but adding the statement that because it is only a painting of an apple it is not infact an apple. The work that relates most to the idea i am looking at, 'hiding who you are'  are a series of paintings he did of people who had cloth bags over there heads, even though they are seemingly in natural posing positions, or that they are unaware of the fact that there faces are concealed. There is also one of his more famous paintings of a man in a suit and bowler hat, hoewever he has no face, his face is seemingly missing. and another where the buisnessmans face has been concealed by an apple seemingly floating infront of his face.  This is the sort of thing i would like to look at more,and explore how other artists, photographers and video makers hide the identity of modals, or deform the identity of a person.